If you choose to play! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is —... The International Socialist Review - Side 460redigeret af - 1907Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 sider
...your table 'sa hat, and your prize, a dram. Stake your counter as boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 sider
...as boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Doyourbest, whether winning or losingit, If you choose to play — is my principle ! Let a...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
| 1856 - 506 sider
...to serve for a test as a virtue. Do your best, whether winning or losing, if you choose to play : " Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be what it will." Mr. Browning has such a perilous facility of putting himself into the place of the most... | |
| 1856 - 430 sider
...your table's a hat, and your prize, a dram, Stake yonr counter as boldly every whit Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best whether winning or losing It If yon choose to play— Is my principle 1 Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize,... | |
| 1884 - 882 sider
...which otherwise they would never be allowed to enter. From philosophers who believe that a man must "contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will," these evil-doers deserve praise for their perseverance and energy. But beyond this nothing can be said... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 sider
...your table's a hat, and your prize, a dram. Stake your counter as boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sider
...your table's a hat, and your prize a dram. Stake your counter as boldly every whit ; Venture as truly, use the same skill ; Do your best, whether winning...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute... | |
| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 sider
...table 'sa hat, and your prize, a dram. Stake your counter as boldly every whit, Venture as warily, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter, our lovers staked, was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
| 1876 - 564 sider
...your table's a hat, and your prize, a dram. Stake your counter as boldly every whit, Venture as truly, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin ; And the sin I impute... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 sider
...had the man and woman seen clearly "the end" of life, though " a crime," they had not so failed of it: — " If you choose to play — is my principle...uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! "The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute... | |
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